Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2J. Murray, 1854 - 444 pàgines |
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... success His next Play prohibited - His ' Fables ' - Burial and Monument in Westminster Abbey - Works and Character . - . Page 283 GEORGE GRANVILLE , LORD LANSDOWN . - 1665-1734-5 . Birth - Educated at Cambridge - Is commended by Waller ...
... success His next Play prohibited - His ' Fables ' - Burial and Monument in Westminster Abbey - Works and Character . - . Page 283 GEORGE GRANVILLE , LORD LANSDOWN . - 1665-1734-5 . Birth - Educated at Cambridge - Is commended by Waller ...
Pàgina 46
... success of it was as great as the most sanguine expectations of his friends could promise or foresee . The number of nights , and the common method of filling the house , are not always the surest marks of judging what encouragement a ...
... success of it was as great as the most sanguine expectations of his friends could promise or foresee . The number of nights , and the common method of filling the house , are not always the surest marks of judging what encouragement a ...
Pàgina 47
... success of which consisted the greatest , if not the only , happiness of his life . He knew very well what was due to his birth , though Fortune threw him short of it in every other circumstance of life . He avoided making any , though ...
... success of which consisted the greatest , if not the only , happiness of his life . He knew very well what was due to his birth , though Fortune threw him short of it in every other circumstance of life . He avoided making any , though ...
Pàgina 52
... success , and found that naked excellence was not sufficient for its own support . 10 This remark is not strictly true . It was not from the raggedness of his dress ( in which , however , he was probably too great a sloven ) , but from ...
... success , and found that naked excellence was not sufficient for its own support . 10 This remark is not strictly true . It was not from the raggedness of his dress ( in which , however , he was probably too great a sloven ) , but from ...
Pàgina 90
... success in the pulpits of London ; but the Queen's death putting an end to his expectations , abated his diligence ; and Pope repre- sents him as falling from that time into intemperance of wine . That in his latter life he was too much ...
... success in the pulpits of London ; but the Queen's death putting an end to his expectations , abated his diligence ; and Pope repre- sents him as falling from that time into intemperance of wine . That in his latter life he was too much ...
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